Remembering Race in Virginia
On July 30, 2019, exactly four hundred years after the inaugural meeting of the Virginia…
Author Robert Trent Vinson
The End of Three Mile Island
On September 20th of this year, the Three Mile Island (TMI) Unit One nuclear power…
Beyond Harriet African American Women's Work in the Underground Railroad
This November, Focus Features will release the anticipated movie Harriet in theaters worldwide. In promoting…
“Who Remembers the Panic of 1819?”
In the United States, a nation full of monuments to fallen soldiers, there are few…
Whistleblowing Sans Frontières: Edward Snowden, Philip Agee, and the Transnational Challenge of National Security Dissent
On July 2, 2013, the plane of Bolivian President Evo Morales took off from Moscow…
Capital Punishment and the Battle for America’s Soul
In 1976, conservative commentator Pat Buchanan welcomed the news that after a ten-year moratorium, executions…
The Politics of Statehood in Hawai‘i and the Urgency of Non-Statist Decolonization
As I reflect on the 60th anniversary of the United States claiming the Hawaiian Islands…
What’s in the September Issue of the Journal of American History?
The September 2019 issue of The Journal of American History is now available online for subscribers. Included…
Statehood and Other Events: Whales, Alaska Natives, and Perspectives on History
Alaska has been a state for just sixty years. The political events by which the…
Histories of Capital Punishment in the United States
In late July, Attorney General William Barr directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons to resume…